a'Z OUR D05IESTIC FOWLS. 



it was brought, we do not know : most proba- 

 bly Spain first received it in the beginning of 

 the sixteenth century from her new world 

 colonies, and most likely it had been long 

 antecedently domesticated in Mexico. Certain 

 it is that Oviedo, in his Natural History of the 

 Indies, (for so were the intertropical parts of 

 America then called,) published at Toledo in 

 the year 1526, describes the t-urkey as a kind 

 of peacock, abounding in New Spain, whence 

 numbers had been transported to the islands 

 and the Spanish Main, and domesticated in 

 the houses of the Christian inhabitants. Yet 

 even in 1524, during the reign of Henry viii., 

 was the turkey known in England. There is 

 an old distich which runs as follows : — 



" Turkies, Carps, Hops, Pickerell, and Beer, 

 Came iuto England ali iu one year." 



It was about the year 1524 that hops, or 

 the Humulus lupulus, were introduced into 

 England from Flanders, and at the same time 

 came in the turkey. In other respects the 

 couplet is exToneous. Mr. Yarrell, who, in 

 his history of the carp, notices these lines, 

 says, " Pike, or Pickerell, were the subjects of 

 legal regulations in the reign of Edward i. 

 Carp are mentioned in the Book of St. Albans, 



